Can anybody nominate a filmic adaptation of a book that is better than the book? I will posit one: Fight Club.
Can anybody nominate a filmic adaptation of a book that is better than the book?
I will posit one: Fight Club.
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I might get hate for this.. Lord of the Rings… I couldn’t finish the books.. too long winded but I loved every movie
Well, I’ve never been able to get far into ANY Tolkien book, yet I enjoyed the film adaptations. I’d been able to finish Gone With the Wind, Les Miserables, War and Peace, even. But Tolkien? Sorry.
@Emmanuelle yes I read extensively but Tolkien… I don’t know if I’ll ever achieve them
I’m unlikely to try again. Lol
agree! I have read lord of the rings trilogy but didn’t enjoy them as books, but the films are up there amongst my favourite ever x
A Wrinkle In Time
@Jami yes!
@Jami NO THE MOVIE WAS TERRIBLE!!
The 13th Warrior…based on the Michael Crichton book, Eaters of the Dead.
Children of Men, one of my favorite movies, the book put me to sleep
The Princess Bride (fight me)
As you wish ?
@Chelsea came here to say this! I loved the movie, the book was “meh” for me
the shawshank redemption & the green mile, if not better then the same, bloody fab xxx
Secret Window, The Shining, Stand by Me
Anything Stephen king is better movie form.
The Shining is an exception.., the book is amazing… movie good, not as great
I have another two Kings, Carrie and Misery.
Legally Blonde
Jaws
Most Stephen King books.
Forrest Gump
Devil wears Prada
The hundred feet journey
Up in the Air
P. S. I love you.
Dracula
The Notebook
I hated the book. I’ve tried to read a few of Nicholas Sparks novels and am just not a fan.
A Walk To Remember. The movie was a lot better and the characters were more interesting then the book.
Maze runner
The Hunger Games. I might get crucified for staying this, though.
I liked the books better, but the movies were awesome…very true to the books!!
@Beth Catching Fire is my favorite book to movie adaptation! I loved it.
Memoirs of A Geisha
Oooh no! Sorry have to disagree.
I feel the complete opposite! The book was excellent and the film so poor.
I love both, but I liked the movie being more of a love story than the book was.
gone with the wind
@Melany NO, NO, NO! ?☺️
I think the film series Game of Thrones is done better than the books.
@Nettie NOPE although the series is great!
I’m not going to say Of Mice and Men (1992 film) was better than its progenitor, the book was brilliant, but the film was great.
@Steven agree !
The Book Thief
The Painted Veil.
The Hunger Games trilogy
I wouldn’t say they were better then the books but were just as good.
@Naomi excellent movies
Mary Poppins
The books are wonderful!
@Sandra yes, but I enjoyed the first movie much more than the first book. I didn’t like Mary Poppins the character at all in the books. Julie Andrews is just magic.
Yes she was but not a true representation of the character in the book at all.
@Sandra Right. That’s why I liked the movies better 😉
Sandra Henderson Did you see the most recent Mary Poppins Returns? I thought Emily did a better job representing the book character. Great movie, too.
@Jessica yes, it was lovely. She’s definitely a bit closer to the character in the book.
I hated Mary in the books. Loved both Julie Andrews and Emily Blunt.
Not a movie, but Big Little Lies
I really struggled to get through the book, but was hoping the series would be good based on good reviews. I thought it was god awful. So much changed and not for the better. Very boring.
I loved the book but I am obsessed with the series. It is so good.
The notebook.
The outsiders
To Kill a Mockingbird
For real? The 1962 film?
I mostly dislike movies where I have read the book. Loved this one
Excellent film but book is superior for me too!
It is one of the best books I have ever read
The Devil Wears Prada
Trainspotting
Eat, Pray, Love
Cloud Atlas
We need to talk about kevin
I was so sorry I read that book. It was a good book, but I wish I had not read it. Could not watch the movie
Count of Monte Cristo
Life of Pi
Out of Africa, wonderful film, difficult and dull book….
@Debora You might want to try a different translation. I read one that was like trying the run in mud and then picked up a different translation that was so lyrical it was like poetry.
A time to kill. My sisters keeper.
I hated the film version of my sisters keeper because they changed the ending and made it too predictable much prefer the twist at the end.
@Wendy I hated the book because I thought it was too heat and tidy and far fetched.
@Lucy Hmm I can see where you are coming from there I have to say it isn’t my favourite of hers but I just felt the film ending was too stereotypical.
Stardust
Would I be controversial in saying ‘Game of Thrones’?
@Aimee a little bit. Because they branch AWAY from the books after awhile. Can’t finish a tv show following the books when the man won’t finish the darn things.
@Amber I reread all the books in anticipation of Mr Martins finale – but to no avail. I am currently reading his latest addition Blood and Fire – 300 years of Targaryen history. BUT its not as gripping a read when telling a tale in retrospect. I gave up resisting the HBO version of events- I was a purist for a while then binge watched the whole thing in a matter of a week. Its a love/hate thing.
Bridges of Madison County
Dolores Claiborne!
Thirteen Reasons Why, the show is so much better than the book
@Katy I guess I need to see it then
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
@The way better than book.
Into the Wild
The Gossip Girl series
American Psycho, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Lolita, Stardust
@Tyler I liked the Shining as a book better. There’s two movies though. SK wasn’t happy with some of the film adaptations so he made his own made-for-tv version as well.
Dances with Wolves
Bridget Jones
Cross Creek
The Notebook
Jaws, Silence of the Lambs, Jurassic Park
Not a movie but Sex & the City
@Maria I forgot the series was based on a book lol.
I don’t think there is one. Every movie adaptation of a book I have ever seen is changed from the book and the book is always better. Changed endings or changed characters just make no sense to me.
The Godfather
The shawshank redemption.
Game of thrones
The Painted Veil
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Psycho
The Notebook
Slum dog millionaires
The Fault In Our Stars. I loved the book but something about seeing it played out hit me harder than reading the book.
Not a movie but tv adaptation. The Vampire Diaries. I couldn’t read the books. The show was good.
I enjoyed “The Light Between Oceans” because it stuck so faithfully to the book, so seeing it acted out was a very enjoyable experience.
@Eileen loved the book so much, and didn’t know it was a movie as well. Who starred?
I thought both the movie and the book of Howl’s Moving Castle were great, the stories are very different though the characters and setting are the same. Though that was an animated adaptation from Miyazaki on Diana Jones’ book.
twilight breaking dawn part 2
I completely disagree, lol. Thought the film was overly cheesy and a bit of a let down
@Jenny don’t be talking about my twilight! I might just get as mad as a Harry Potter lover that’s been disagreed with! Lol joke. I liked it bc of the twist at the end where after they’ve shown the fight do we realize it was just a vision. I was going crazy! I was going “that didn’t happen!” Etc… my daughters were with me and going “calm down! Shhhh!” lol. It’s one of those you either love or hate. No in between
Hehe, I enjoyed the books, just not impressed with the last film
The Stand by Stephen King.
The Handmaid’s Tale! Not a movie, but still… the show is much better than the book.
@Cassie agree yet somehow I’m interested in reading the upcoming sequel, the testaments
@Jennifer oooh there is a sequel? One thing I hated about the book is that I felt like the ending had been ripped out. I was reading a copy from the library and literally checked the internet to make sure I read the ending. It felt like the author just wanted to stop writing. It was very frustrating!
But I also felt like the show added a ton throughout the story, that I felt was missing from the book.
This is the only time I’ve ever liked a tv/movie adaptation better than the book.
That was my experience too. Atwood’s sequel will be out this year. I don’t think it’s published yet.
Jurassic Park
Good Behavior by Blake Crouch was turned into a TNT series and it is EXCELLENT!
THE GREEN MILE book and movie run neck and neck for me!
The Longest Ride
Practical Magic
I completely agree
Smila’s Sense of Snow
The Potato Peel and Literay Society
Bridgit Jones’s Diary. Also, The Notebook and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Bones, Vera, Frost
The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Liked the book, adore the movie.
Gone Girl.
Atonement
Gone girl. Couldn’t get into the book, too wordy.
World War Z
Game of Thrones
The notebook. Way way better movie.
Beautiful Creatures, Gone Girl.
A Kind Of Loving.
Chocolat
The Color Purple
Gone girl. The way the book was written sounded so childish to me.